Right, but you need to be at a particularly high scale when you need to write code that directly interacts with a cloud provider. I can think of no use case where you are at that level that can also scale down to a home lab setup.

Yes, you can do slimmed down cloud deployments, but you're still not running the (actual) S3 or EC2 backends at home.

At most, you’re talking a K8s based deployment (for a workload that could scale up or down). But that’s also not at the level of working with Oxide directly. And I doubt Oxide wants to get into the business of selling access to their own public cloud.